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I Before E right?

K, So when I start typing a paper I have this horrible problem. Well, It's a problem because it is an exception to the rule of the I before E rule. When I go to type about someone and a possion belonging to them I type this: "They brought thier tent with them on the camping trip." Looks right, right? Wrong it should be, "They brought their tent with them..." why? I thought I was supposed to come before E except after C, like this: Believe, achieve, receive, relieve. Well, this is not true. There are a lot of exceptions to this rule. almost as many that do follow the rule. Check out Wikipedia.

Let's play 50 questions.

1. Who started the Television?
2. How many Television programs are on TV?
3. How long does the average person watch tv a day?
4. How old can a child get addicted to TV?
5. How many swearwords are used in an average 30 min program?
6. How many swearwords do kids hear a day from media?
7. when was the first swearword said on public tv?
8. why do people want to use swearwords on TV?
9. what kind of shows do people watch on TV?
10. Has anyone died from watching TV to long?
11. Has anyone died from playing Video games to long?
12. How many hours a day do people play Video games?
13. What do profesionals say about playing video games to long?
14. How has media influenced the average household?
15. How did people live without TV?
16. Do some people still live without TV?
17. Do people have a TV but not have streamed Programing?
18. How has TV been a help to us today?
19. how much learning does people get from watching TV?
20. How much Learning happens when people play Video Games?
21. Could Society function without TV?
22. What did kids used to do for fun before TV?
23. Has society become more paranoid from watching TV?
24. Do kids have more friends today than they did before TV?
25. How has TV affected the health of kids and people?
26. How has internet affected the postal system?
27. what were the perposes of the internet being created?
28. What kind of people funded the internet?
29. How high has crime jumped since the internet?
30. How high has the crime jumped since TV?
31. Does media inspire crime?
32. How many TV Shows have been made?
33. How many movies have been made since the start of movies?
34. What was the first movie ever made?
35. Should there be a ban on certain programs on TV?
36. Should stations have at least one educational program?
37. What would happen if all the TV Stations were neutalized?
38. How could media be reduced in peoples lives?
39. What could people learn in the time that people spend on tv each week?
40. How many books could be read by the average person each year with the time spent watching TV?
41. What should the job of the media be?
42. Do you lose more weight sleeping or watching TV?
43. Is watching TV really bad for your eyes?
44. Should news stop focusing on the bad stuff and start publishing positive stories?
45. Could uplifting stories, movie, and TV Shows reduce Crime?
46. How much money does a TV Station make?
47. What is the salary of a movie star compared to the average person.
48. Can I be done?
49. Does TV have an effect on how long you live?
50. Has TV made the US more prosperous?
51. Has TV Caused the US to go into debt?

Whats the "-" for?

So what the heck is the - (dash) for? Well, I guess it does a good job of separating a thought that is kind of related, almost like the parenthasis. For example: Jack, you are too overbearing - stop being overbearing! Thats is about the onlything I can think of... SOOOOO.... To the Web. HERE is the Page. Short and Sweet. Says about the same thing in so many words. Time for bed now.

Breather Assignment: Santa Fe by Alen Menkin from the Movie Newsies

So that's what they call a family,
Mother, daughter, father, son,
Guess that everything you heard about is true.

So you aint got any family

Well, who said you needed one?

Aint'cha glad, nobody's waitin' up for you.

When I dream, on my own,

I'm alone but I aint lonely.

For a dreamer nights the only time of day

When the city's finally sleepin'

All my thoughts begin to stray.

And I'm on the train thats bound for Santa Fe.

And I'm free, like the wind,
like I'm gonna live forever.

It's a feelin' time can never take away.

All I needs a few more dollars

and I'm out of here to stay.

Dreams come true, yes they do

in Santa Fe.

Where does it say you've got ta live and Die here

Where does it say a guy can't catch a break

Breakin' your back for someone elses sake.

If the life don't seem to suit ya'

How 'bout a change of scene.

Far from the lousey headlines and the deadlines in between.

Santa Fe, are you there?

Do you swear you won't forget me.

If I found you would you let me come and stay.

I aint gettin' any younger

So before my dyin' day

I want space, not just air

let 'em laugh in my face I don't care

Save a place, I'll be there...

So thats what they call a family

Aint'cha glad you aint that way

Aint'cha glad you got a dream called

Santa Fe.

Statis Quo

The two readings this week were Serving in Florida by Ehrenreich and Framing Class by Kendall. In Serving in Florida, The author writes in a first person perspective telling us about her experience working as a low class citizen in some diners and hotel. In Framing Class the author takes a research perspective of analyzing the medias influence in framing the social classes in the US.
In Serving in Florida the author trys this experiment it seems to see if she can actually live as a low class citizen. She tells her story very well expressing the harsh environment in which she ends up working with a managment making the waitresses go there whole shift without even a break. The waitresses try and help each other out by covering for them if they have to excersise their personal privilages that have been taken away from them so they don't get caught. She finds herself seeming to change while working there over the weeks. In one example she said she usually has courage to stand up for something she beleives in but ends up not because of her experiance there at the diners. Near the end she ends up just walking out of the diner as the horrible days she keeps having their stacks up and thinks she has failed in her experiment. There is a lot that can be learned from this as the managment tends to take advatage of their employees you can tell that the management is hard nosed and doesn't care for the employees but only about then next dollar that comes in. In her situation it seems obvious that that is just a horrible place to be employed. Her portrayal of the low class laborers of our society is very effective of what the low class has to endure.
In Framing Class, the author uses a lot of logos in the paper giving a very good description of each class of people and then how the media portrays them. Several things stuck out to me in this essay. One was the fact that the overall reason why we know about a difference in class is because of the media. The fact that media sees the public as their product they do all they can to just get the viewers attention so they can sell to the public even if the shows they portray the class in are skewed and biased. The reason why media shows the rich in such a spotlight is because it is the rich people who are running the media and they need to keep their "Status Quo" So they hardly want to dirty their image.